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Learn Multiple Legal Research Platforms

February 18, 2010

Regardless of where you are on your path to a legal career, you should try to master the variety of legal research tools at your fingertips. During my 1L legal writing course, our law librarians empowered me with fundamental legal research skills. We learned to apply these skills to the archaic online databases of Westlaw [...]

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Lexis Integrates with Microsoft Office

February 9, 2010

Later this year, lawyers with Lexis subscriptions and Microsoft Office will be able to use Lexis within the comfy confines of Microsoft Word and other applications. The integration should allow attorneys to stay within one program when drafting briefs, rather than clicking back and forth. If you use Word and Lexis, the integration will make [...]

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Fastcase on the iPhone

February 5, 2010

If you are at your desk, you likely have more than one resource available to research caselaw. If you are on the move, however, your options are more limited. Fastcase just unveiled a free app for the iPhone that gives users one option. The app itself The Fastcase app is smooth and works rather well. [...]

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Update: Subpoena Facebook Information

December 13, 2009

Last July, I posted an e-mail from Facebook on how to subpoena Facebook profile information. Recently, Michele Fiedler, a paralegal from Cozen O’Connor, e-mailed to tell us that Facebook is no longer accepting New York civil subpoenas. Now, they are only accepting California subpoenas. So now you know.

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Legal Research with Google Scholar

November 19, 2009

The next time you to need to legal research, consider using Google Scholar. Google Scholar has a rather impressive library of judicial opinions, and if you have a citation you can probably find it. The information is more raw, however, and Google Scholar does not organize the results in the same manner as Westlaw or [...]

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The Debut of Bloomberg Law

October 17, 2009

The duel between LexisNexis and Westlaw is about to become a three-way battle—Bloomberg Law rolls out later this month. Bloomberg Law’s claim to fame is integrating real-time news and business bulletins with legal content. The service also has comparable features to Westlaw and LexisNexis—case law search, citation check, headnotes, etc. Whether or not Bloomberg Law [...]

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